Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Chemistry Prof. Zhu Zhou at York College was awarded a major grant from National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Zhou has been selected for the 2022 Butler-Williams Scholars award by the National Institutes on Aging (NIA).
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of 121 Asian American groups and educators in support of race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). AALDEF argues that contrary to the claims made by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), Asian … Read more
A collaboration between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is a monthly series published in AAWW’s The Margins that launched in July 2020. This ongoing project looks to Black and Asian American feminist histories, practices, and frameworks on care, community, and survival for the tools and strategies … Read more
The Constellation Award supports independent literary presses that are led by and/or champion the writing of people of color, including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and AAPI individuals. The 2022 recipient will receive $10,000 and will be announced in November 2022. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2022 at 11:59 pm ET.
Dear Human Poems invite poems especially from BIPOC poets and poets from historically underrepresented communities. This is a call for poems that can amplify our lived experiences of climate impacts in the Southeast and other regions; and for poets to contribute to the urgent conversations on environmental justice.
AAWW is proud to offer two fellowships for emerging NYC and tristate area-based Asian American and Asian diasporic writers. The Open City Fellowship gives writers the opportunity to write narrative nonfiction on vibrant immigrant communities across the tristate area. The Margins Fellowship is an opportunity for four New York-based emerging creative writers to establish a … Read more